TVTA puts aside its usual fare of vintage adverts for a moment to focus on some younger ads which embrace the pop culture of their older generations. We begin in our current year 2018 with an advert for a Tintin watch based on the character’s adventure Explorers on the Moon which was first published in Tintin magazine on 30 March 1950.
Tintin watch. Premiere. France. 2018.
Next stop is 1997 with Kenner Star Wars toys and Micro-Machines.
Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition Offers Catalogue. UK 1997.
Star Wars Trilogy Special Offers Catalogue. UK. 1997.
Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition Offers Catalogue. UK. 1997.
2008 / 2009. Marvel and DC action figures
Wizard. UK. 2009.
Wizard. UK. 2009.
Wizard. UK. 2008.
2018. The best of Justice League from Urban Comics
Wootbox Magazine. France. 2018.
WWE Kane and Undertaker Mini-busts
Wizard. UK. 2008.
2017. Paris International Fantastic Film Festival
Pifff. Mad Movies. 2017. France.
2018. Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Annecy. Premiere. France. 2018.
2017. Atom Manga Culture
Atom. Mad Movies. France. 2017.
2008. Valkyria Chronicles.
Valkyria. Wizard. UK. 2008.
2009. Warhammer 40k Dawn of War
Warhammer Dawn of War. Wizard. UK. 2009.
2009. Wanted
Wanted. Wizard. UK. 2009.
2018. Premiere Classics
Premiere Classics. Premiere. France. 2018.
2017. Fireman Sam / Sam Le Pompier, Smoby, France
Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé. France. 2017.
2018. Anyone for Mario Tennis Aces?
Science & Vie Junior. France. 2018.
Thanks for looking 🙂
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Really enjoyed these – the Tintin watch and film festival posters are favourites. But it’s the WWE busts have really caught my eye, especially Kane. A few years earlier and I’d have been all over those!
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The two film festival posters are superb, and I agree those mini-busts are pretty cool aren’t they.
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Hi TVTA. Cool! Star Wars and WWe in one post. I have a Micro Machines C3PO playset which is Threepio’s head. It opens up (like a clamshell) to reveal the Star Wars Cantina inside. It even has a sliding mechanism so the Imperials can burst through the doorway. But I wish I had those WWe busts, they are nice. Did I mention I designed a lightsaber for Johnny Jeter of the WWe Spirit Squad? I used to chat with him on a forum and got to send him my design!
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Hi FT. Cool, you should send me the link to that lightsaber design. I nearly bought one of those Micro-machines playset heads a few years back to go in the toy collection – looks like they have a lot of playability and function.
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Hi TVTA, the C3PO set is quite neat (though mine is slightly damaged – the hinge has snapped and is second hand). The amount of detail they cram in the sets is astounding.
Wrestling hilts I have a few so here are the links to “Spirit Seeker Lightsaber” for Mr Jeter and a collection of over 20 other WWe and WCW saber designs.
Spirit Seeker:
https://ftsabersite.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/spirit-seeker-lightsaber-saber-for-johnny-jeter/
Wrestling saber collection:
https://ftsabersite.wordpress.com/tag/wrestling/
Hope you like them, seconds out….Round two!
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Will check those out.
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